Work-life balance top priority for Millennials

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Happy New Year!

We’re off to the races in 2018, and there’s already plenty of great cloud accounting content for me to share from this past week.

What does this mean? It means that public accounting firms are going to have to change how they motivate their staff. The promise of partnership simply isn’t as appealing as it once was, and that alone isn’t going to convince Millennials to stick around and work long hours.

The same goes for controllers working in industry. Either figure out how to let your staff go home on time, or they’ll let themselves go (and find a better job!).

As always, here’s my curated collection of the best links I clicked on recently.

The IRS Data Verification Modernization Act of 2017, recently introduced in Congress, would set up an application programming interface (API) at the IRS, allowing consumers to provide transcripts of tax returns to vendors in an instant.

Being remembered is a result of being relentless in your content marketing. Here are eighteen people to connect with & follow so you can be better at marketing in 2018 (including yours truly, so how could I not share it out?).

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